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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
Another Canadian View,

The Toronto Mail of Jan. 81, says
1t is unfortunate for Canadian inter-
ests that general election should be
in progress at the time when our
American neighbors are legislating
against US. 1t is true the bellicose
speeches delivered in the United States
Senate the other day needed not to be
taken seriously. Nevertheless it is
abundantly evident from the better
class of American journals that our
neighbors are determined to adopt ga
spirited foreign policy" in plain En-
glish, to steal our fish and to punish
US if we attempt to prevent them.
England is the party with which the
Americans have to deal, but the for
eign Office in London is largely influ-
enced by the colonial Office, which in
turn receives its inspiration from Of
tawa. 1t is a piece OF bad luck,
therefore, that at such a critical juno
ture our ministers should be occupied
in election matters and that in the
maratime provinces politicians on
both sides should be making speeches
on the fishing question which may pref
ldice or embarrass the government in
the delicate negotiations now in prog
ress. 1t is no use blinking at the fact
that Canada is at a grave disadvan-
tage in this controversy. On the one
hand Americans of the Ingalls, and
Riddleberger stamp refuse us a fair
hearing simply because we are British,
while on the other hand our govern
ment must abide by the terms which
the imperial authorities may be driven
to accept in their own interest, wholly
of the merits of our case.
We suffer from American prejudice
against England and from England's
unwillingness and inability to make
our case her own, and betwixt the two
it will be a miracle if we are not
shorn. The foreign office will make
a show of protecting our rights, but
the capital consideration with Lord
Salisbury will be not the justice of
our cause, so much as the necessity
for maintaining cordial relations with
the United States. 1t may be taken
for granted, then, that whatever form
a settlement with the United States
may take, we are sure to get little
the worst of the bargain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03

Using towels is an unsupported ma
mia with Congressman. A Washing
ton correspondent says: Congress
was in session about 240 days, and,
according to the wash bills, used
1873 $50 towels, an average of about
600 per day, or more than two per
member in attendance. There is not
hotel in the country where so many
towels are washed per day as in the
House of Representatives, nor in
which so much money is paid for
washing them. The total expenditure
for this purpose by the House of
Representatives last year was 50, no.
50 for washing towels alone. The first
part Of the year so cents dozen was
paid, but in the spring the price was
cut down to % cents a dozen. The
work is not let by contract, but is
given out by the door-keeper to who
ever he pleases, and paid for at such
prices as he may fix. The position Of
washerwomen to the House of Rep
resentatives is an honorable and lu-
crative one, and in times past ladies
of social standing have not been
ashamed to take the work and have it
done by their servants while they
lived comfortably on the proceeds.
No complaint is made that such is the
case now, but not many years ago a
door-keeper was found to have given
the towels of the House Of Represen-
tatives to lady friend, to be washed
at so cents a dozen, who had women
employed in the basement of her
house doing the work for a dollar a
day. According to the accounts of the
clerk, each Congressman must have
used at least 40 towels during the
year, but they Gid not show any signs
of it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
a Wolf Hunt.

On Wednesday of week before last
at Oakland, ILL.,, over 1000 men and
boys gathered and proceeded to or
ganize a grand hunt for wolves in
Sargent township, Douglass county,
five miles north. The scene Of the
hunt was the large pasture and woods
of Andrew Given and a number OF
other farms. The Given estate con-
tains 5000 acres and on the west side
is bounded by the Ambraw river and
a line of hills. For the past year
wolves have been destroying sheep
and hogs in that vicinity, as many as
twelve wolves in pack being sighted
at time. Four different lines, under
charge of as many different captains,
were organized. Then the hounds,
some 800 in number, were turned
loose. No one was allowed to carry
firearms. The sport soon commenced
in earnest. The baying of the
hounds could be heard all over the
township. The first two wolves start
ed up ran to the east line and were
killed by the dogs, aided by clubs in
the hands of the hunters. A gang of
five more wolves were next sighted.
Three of these were killed on the
north line and one on the northeast
line. The remaining one slipped
through the line and escaped, and the
hunters would not allow the dogs to
get out of the lines. Three more
wolves were started up on the west
line and killed. Two more were start
ed up in the big pasture. One was
killed and the other crippled and
brought to the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
Letter From Minnesota.

ST. CHARLES, MINI, Jan. 10, '87.
Messrs. Editors:
/ have the pleasure every week of
hearing from old friends through the
columns of your paper, and your al
lowing me to write to them in a gen.
eral way through the same medium l
appreciate very highly.
We are having a Minnesota winter,
as usual. Had the mercury playing
around the forties for few days, but
now it is up to a moderate locality
Is or 20 below. The wind has been
lively, however, for "a hours, and
trains are irregular. But on the
whole it has been moderate weather
since winter set in, Nov. 16, which
always comes so sharply that we
know it. Sleighing has been excel
lent, with but little snow until the
present storm, which will leave the
roads drifted. Christmas passed off
with more than common interest. All
the churches had a special observance
and generally improved upon the past.
The prospect of another railroad, to
be built by the Burlington & North
ern is giving US distant hopes of cheap
er fuel and a boom in business. A
Touring mill is in process of erection,
which will be help to us in many
ways. Real estate is IN better de-
mand and things generally are bright
ening up just little. Our ladies are
proposing "New England Supper"
which will furnish the good old Yam
kee dishes, including baked beans
with Boston brown bread, pumpkin
pies and very likely clam chowder.
There will be an old folks sing and
a general sociable for people from the
East. The week of prayer was OBJ
served by very profitable union meet
ings. The feeling between the church
es at present is friendly. A true
union spirit prevails and the petty
jealousies of the past have disap-
peared, we hope, for ever. A good
many of our people have gone
to Florida or the Pacific coast to spend
the winter. 1t is not the extreme cold
weather in all cases which makes the
winter trying. Consumptives stand
our winters well enough. 1t is the
effect of so much oxygen upon the
nervous sytem. When the mercury
stands at 80 below zero, orstiIl lower,
there is a peculiar exhileration about
it which is felt by the nervous, and
some persons of my acquaintance
have been driven to seek "a lower ele-
walton and moister atmosphere, which
they find near the sea coast. That
is the principle danger of the climate.
Spinal meningitis is a well known dis
ease.
1 want to again mention our public
school in terms of praise. We now
have eight accomplished teachers,
have lately put in stock of appara-
tus for chemistry and physics and
have q good library started. l send
greetings to all old acquaintances.
d. Ii. BIcKNELL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03

There are just fifteen members of
the U. S. Senate who are reported 10
own a million or more, and these are
Senator Bowen of Colorado; Brown
of Georgia; Camden of West Vir-
ginia; Cameron of Pennsylvania E;
Fair of Nevada; Hale of Maine
Jones of Nevada Malone of Virgin
ia f; Mcpherson of New Jersey Palm
er of Michigan; Payne of Ohio and
Sanford of California. The latter,
with Senators Fair and Palmer, are
thirty times millionaires, while Mr..
Whithorne of Tennessee, is accredit.
ed with more poverty than any Other
Senator. There are several, howev.
er, who have to live entirely on theil
salaries.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
FROM WASHINGTON,
from our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. T.,
Jan. %, 1887.
The women are here again pleading
piteously and eloquently for their
rights, and telling the old, old story of
their wrongs, just as they have done
in Washington every successive win
ter for nineteen years. Many of the
journeyipgs to this Mecca of their
hopes, and every year there are some
new ones.
There is something at once sublime
and pathetic in their persistence.
They are undismayed. Opposition is
nothing. Disappointment are moth
ing. Yet nobody knows better than
these women that they have expended
a good deal of their strength upon men
of straw, instead of on their husbands
and sons and brothers.
During the very hour of the opening
of their convention here, the Senate
rejected their proposed amendment to
the Constitution, giving women the
right of suffrage, by a vote of thirty
five to sixteen. The ladies of the
convention are jubilant over this tri-
umph. "Defeat," exclaimed Miss
Anthony, "whv, no, it is triumph
for us. We have ON our side one-third
of the United States Senate. This is
the first time," continued she, that
we ever got vote on our amendment
at all. We have accomplished great
deal in securing recognition" When
asked what right she had to claim one
third of the Senate as friendly to wo-
man suffrage, she picked up the print
ed record of the vote and said, "Well,
there were sixteen Senators who vot-
ed for the bill. Of the absentees we
count on Allison, Aldrich, Cameron,
Chace, Dawes, Frye, Miller, Plumb,
Sa5in, and Stanford as our friends"
She had some doubts about Harrison
of Indiana. "There are eleven of
them, who, with the sixteen that vot-
ed" said she, "make in all, twenty
seven Senators on our side
Miss Anthony proceeded with
"ghoulish glee" to state their further
plan of action. In the case Of Sen
ators who are known to be their oppo-
nents, when they come up for election
again, great efforts will be made to
prevent their return to the Senate.
In Kansas the women would work for
the election of members to the Legis-
lature who would promise to support
for the United States Senate only some
man pledged to vote for their amend
ment.
The week has been a lively one in
telephone circles, as the great suit is
now in progress. An imposing array
Of legal talent was present, and the
arguments in the United States Su-
preme court have drawn the public
daily. When Mr.. Lowery, for the
Molecular Company, arose to contin-
ue his argument yesterday, the room
was crowded with attorneys and the
tables and desks were filled with tele-
phone models. AS he speaks he gives
object lessons by means of the models.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
Probate court-LamoiIIe District.

The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office in Hyde
Park, during the week ending Jan.
29th, A. D. 1887.
Jan. 24.-A. H. Quimby's estate, VOL
colt; appraisers return inventory. H.
H. Morgan's estate, MorristOwn adj
miniStratrix presents her account for
settlement; hearing set for Feb. 18th,
1887. Colby Wells estate, Wolcott: ex-
ecutor presents his account for settle
ment hearing set for Feb. II, 1877. J.
NJ Green's estate, MOrriStoWn; settle
ment continued to Feb. 18th, 1887, at 8
o'clock, A. NJ. Elsie Pixley, minor,
Stowe; application made to have guar
dian appointed; hearing set for Feb 5,
1887.
Jan. 25.-Henry Stanley's estate, John
son; administrator presents his account
for settlement; hearing set for Feb. Is,
1887.
Jan. 26.-Susan F. Andrus' guardian
ship, Stowe; guardian settles his &C
count.
Jan. 27.-F. Chamberlin's estate,
Stowe; commissioners make report
HaZen Horner guardianship, johnson
guardian settles his account. Cora NJ.
IsadOre S. and Willie l.. Bennett guar
dianship, Stowe; guardian settles his
account.
Jan. 2S.-Dan Cady's estate, Stowe
assignment made to widow. Cassan-
dra Lovejoy guardianship, Stowe license
granted guardian to sell real estate. E
S. Mudgett's estate, Cambridge; admin
istratriX presents her account for settle
ment; hearing set for Feb. 22nd 1887.
Jan. 29.-S. F. Pixies estate, Stowe
commissioners make report.
VECNCV
Jan. ga. J. Miles, insolvent debtor
Wolcott; second and third meeting OF
creditors held; claims proved and hear
ing continued to Feb. Sth, 1887.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
Written for the NEWS AND CITIZEN
HUNcLE RANSOM

ut does not seem possible for me to
endure this any longer" exclaimed the
PRESIDENT, as he sank exhausted into a
chalr. These opportunities for office
are lntolerable." 1--WE must try to bear
with 1t till after the next Presidential
election" replied his private secretary.
we cannot turn the Republicans out by
wholesale until your reelection has been
secured" "Do you know" inquired the
PRESIDENT, what is the best work on the
limits of human endurance?" "Well,'
Tepiled the secretary, II think JOB on
Bolls' is standard work. Eyes, but
that Is old. L want something that en-
braces the latest researches. Didn't Mr..
Caudle write work called Patience I'm
DER FIRE! p 81 don't know, but [ will
ascertain if there is such work extant."
do SO without delay, and if you find it,
secure copy at whatever cost"
western quack advertises that he is
the great marvel of the nineteenth CEN
fury. 1t is greater marvel that some
western cyclone does not take notion to
give him a dose of wind collie.
The Ohio man has sat down and now
an ONO woman rises to announce that
she has patented a new thing in pants.
Bachelors will have to pay a large royal
ty on the article, but it will be free to all
married men.
The Sultan of Turkey is the "sick man
of the East and President Cleveland the
"sick man of the West" Let them ex-
change notes of coincidence. Cleveland
has rheumatism; he is also dreadfully
sick Of office-seekers, and there are indi-
cations that he will be worse after the
next Presidential election.
What is the difference between an or
gan grinder and an organ seller? One ex-
tracts music from his organ and the other
extracts money from peoples pockets.
Dress according to your means; that
means economy ECONOMY means wealth
wealth means govt and govt means fine
feelings.
II like to have you come to see Dol
lie," said her little brother to Fred, "be-
cause you give me candy and John does
not, but ma says she should hate awfully
to have Dolly marry you. She said John
was hanging off and she thought if Dolly
went with you a little it would bring
him to time.''
Most girls know how to get beau but
the difficulty is to keep one. 1t is rather
difficult to keep fellow after II O'Clock
unless the old folks are gone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
STATE ITEM s ,

Montpelier's coasting club has over
200 members.
The talk of an extra session of
Congress is increasing in Washington.
Several parties in Brattleboro have
been fined for keeping unlicensed
dogs.
Charles, the 18-years-old son of {.
Yattaw, was accidentally shot BY Fred
E. Sanders at Vergennes last week
and will probably die.
DR.. Forrest, of New York, who
graduated from Vermont University
in 1884, has given $500 to that insti-
tuition for elocution prizes.
E. G. Gibbs house in Ripton, occu-
pied by Julius Dumas, was burned
the other night with the entire con-
tents. Loss, $500, and no insurance.
Messrs. Atkins and Spear gave a
dinner in Washington, to Gov. Orms-
bee and Auditor Powell, last Friday.
A number of invited guests were pres
ent.
1t is reported that CD. Winship, the
constable and collector of the town of
Weston, has defaulted in the sum of
$500, for which his bondsmen will be
held liable.
Eustis O'Clare, who, with several
others, escaped from the Burlington
Jail last August, has been captured
and put into his old quarters. He
was found in Canada.
From a carload of western horses
which arrived in Vermont recently,
two fine animals intended for Montpe-
lier people, escaped near Chicago and
could not be recaptured.
A young girl of East Pownal was
overcome by the cold while returning
from school the other day, She was
found unconscious in snow drift and
was resuscitated with difficulty.
The bay at Burlington is full of
floating ice, and the dealers will have
to go two or three miles to get to
clear ice unless the broken mass goes
out before the lake freezes over.
Miss Stern, the postmistress of
West Braintree, objected because the
Democrats spit on her floor, and she
had to go. She ought to 60. She
had no right to intefere with Demo-
cratic habits. This is a reform adj
ministration.
The station agent and half a dozen
men at Cambridge secured a large
quantity of liquor Thursday night and
proceeded to stir up the neighbor-
hood. 1t cost them $40 each and
costs, and Cambridge has now a new
station agent.
w. E. Dian, of Caledonia county,
who was discharged for infanticide
and rearrested for adultery few days
ago, had hearing subsequently upon
the latter charge and was held for
trial. For want of $500 bail he was
committed to Jail.
Action has been brought by the
law firm of Wiman & Ayers, of Swan
ton, against Frank Anterior, sheriff
vi " oohihSuOh SOuhCJ VII Dcudll Ol
Nathaniel Sheets for false imprison-
ment and malicious prosecution, dam
ages being placed at $4,000. Sheets
was arrested two years ago and at
the time Anterior had an encounter
with the lake Champlain fishermen
while trying to seize their nets. 1t
is rumored that other suits are to
follow.
There is an ice jam in the Winoos-
XII river at Bolton and the intervales
are covered with water, which has
been two feet deep over the railroad
track at Pine Flats. The lowlands
and highways are piled up with ice
and some farm houses are completely
isolated. The water was eight feet
deep in the highway. |
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Foreign News.

Russia refuses to join a formal con-
ference on the Bulgarian question.
A new cabinet has been formed at
Quebec with the Hon. Mercier as its
head.
Mr.. Goschen, who was defeated in
Liverpool, has the refusal of thirty
parliamentary seats.
The British steamer Blair Athol has
foundered in the Black Sea. Twenty
persons were drowned.
The Swedish ministry has decided
to resign on account of the uncertainty
of the majority in the diet.
Mr.. Gladstone will be the guest of
the Prince of Wales till Monday.
The authorities of Edinburgh unIver-
sity have decided to invite the Prince
of Wales to become rector of that in
stitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03

The variety in the contents of the Feb
ruary Century is not less noticeable than
the geographical distribution of their
origin. In subjects and contributors all
sections of the country are represented,
and appeal is made to many tastes. Pol
itics, biography, travel, fiction of four
kinds, art, architecture, astronomy. pub
lie questions, war "reminiscences, unwrit-
ten history, poetry and humor furnish
topics of vital and present interest. The
drawings by Winslow, Homer, Penneli'
Blum, Kemble, Alexander, the beautiful
~ printed engrayings OF astronomical
subjects. including a novel one of a flash
of lightning from photograph, the re-
productions of the newly discovered RO-
man bronze statues, and the portraits OF
American statesmen and divines. show
no willingness to subordinate the excel
lence of the pictures to the excellence OF
the text.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03
Charles Bradford, of Manchester

Charles Bradford, of Manchester
Centre, who deals quite extensively
in fowls, recently sent box contain
ing five ducks to gentleman in Wad-
ley Falls, STAFFORD County, N. H.
Among the number was a black duck
whose wings had not been clipped.
Mr.. Bradford received a note from
Wadley Falls, informing him that the
box had arrived all right. About 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon Bradford
heard great commotion among his
fowls, and on going into the yard dis
covered in the center of group of
much excited ducks, geese and hens
the identical black duck that had
been sent to New Hampshire only a
few days before. He had flown back
nearly 200 miles, evidently believing
that there is no place like home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-02-03

THE EDMUNDsEs IN THEIR New
HOUsE.-Senator Edmunds invited the
the Senators and their families, on Sat
uTday afternoon last, to a reception at
his new house in the far northwest sec
ton of the city. tits unique structure
in which comfort has not been sacrificed
to architectural beauty, and large wind
owS admit flood of sunshine to every
room. The parlOr, dining and tea room,
are up one flight of stairs, and there
Mrs. Edmunds, wearing black velvet
dress trimmed with lace, received her
guests. She was aided by her daughter
and Miss Swan, the sister of Mrs. Sena-
tor Morrill,. The refreshment table was
not so gaudily decorated as some others
have been, but it was most daintily
spread, and the terrapin, cooked from
the Senator's own receipt, was especially
cOmplimented.-Al6 Journal.
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